The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-21
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Orange City people are troubled with
sore eyes.
j. H. Benjamin is the new editor of the
New Smyrna Breeze.
Fairview has a picnic and fish fry on
Lake Sarah Jane Saturday.
A horse race will be one of the attractions
at Sanfords Fourth of July celebration
The Oxford Cornet Band have reorganized
and employed teacher, and more members
are wanted.
The commissions for the officers of the
Orlando Guards, Florida State troops, have
been received.
The new Volusia Board of County Com
missioners is expected to organize at Enter
prise next week.
w. H. Gamble, of Wildwood, shipped a
carload of melons which Melted 1919, and
has more to ship.
The Tampa Street Railroad Company is
laying more track, taking in North Tampa
via the brickyard.
w. j. Monroe, of Wildwood, realized over
$500 from his vegetable crop, and will make
corn, etc, for home use.
It is rumored that the B. S. o. C. and A.
r. R. will extend its line across the river TO
the beach at New Smyrna.
The old Volusia Board of County Com
missioners turn over surplus of. nearly
$4,000 to their successors.
The Palatka city council will meet in a
day or two and divide the city into wards
as provided by the new charter
Mr. Lancaster, of tho firm of Austin &
Lancaster, of Orange City, has pre-empted
eighty acres of land on the beach, opposite
New Smyrna.
g. E. Eady, Of, Wildwood, will commence
shipping watermeions this week. He ex-
poets to ship rs OF 80 carloads this season,
and his melons are fine.
w. f. Palmer has opened an ice cream
saloon mt Como. The prettiest girls in the
State are happy, but the gilded youth of
Como are strangely respondent.
R. S. Head, formerly the local agent of
the St. Augustine and Palatla railway is
now the soliciting agent of that road, in
which position he is doing some good work.
Editor Marsh, of the Pioneer, has shaken
the dust OF Fort Meade from his sandals,
and will publish paper soon at Charlotte
Harbor. The Pioneer is temporarily sus-
pended.
Genial Capt. Tuttle, of the Louisville and
Nashville, went over to New Smyrna Sun
day last to gather turtle eggsson the beach,
| and also to gather inspiration for his next
Ellen N. ''pome."
Quarantine has been established between
| st. Augustine and Jacksonville, DIR. A. G..
Phillips having been appointed as quaran-
tine officer on the Jacksonville and St.
| Augustine railroad.
One of Bartow's bellies is so much in de-
mand that she had to have the following
hung up in her parlor: Entertainment be-
| gins at 7:30 p. m. and dismissed at 10, sharp,
| p. m. No Exceptions"
W. A. Hawkins, who has been connected
with the b. s., o. c. and A. railroad for
over two years, resigned the position of
| general passenger and freight agent, and
| left last week 20 engage in the real estate
business at Pablo.
The water was turned on at the great ar
| tesian well at st. Augustine Saturday, and
| its immense force and volume exhibited.
The how seems to have no diminution, and
the water gushes forth at the rate of 10000
| 600 gallons day.
G. /. Rowton, living near Palatka, has
some very fine grapes this season. They
were very fine for an early variety, of good
size and excellent flavor. Mr.. Rowton's
| vines are well filled with fruit, and he will
have a profitable crop.
Tampa Just now is in a state Of transition.
Her old charter has been abolished, and the
| new one going into effect. An election of
/ city officials will be held on the second Tues
\ day in July. Nearly every man you meet
is a candidate for some Office.
Capt j. Z. Lucas, OF Palatka, has char
tered his little steamer Princess TO the
| United States Surveying Corps for the sum
mer, and she will be used while making the
! survey of the ST. Johns bar, plying between
that point and st. Augustine.
| The Lakeland Florida Cracker is publish
| ing history of Polk county. Other coun-
ties would do well 70 get their early history
into cold type before the old settlers pass
away. A great deal is lost to history and
the world by failure to do this.
While Mr.. Scammell was working in his
saw mill at Lake Helen the other day a
seven foot alligator came up out of the lake
and seated himself upon log near by He
was lassoed, and is now kept safely in the
large we'll of the Excelsior saw mills.
+. G. Austin, of Orange City, has secured
from the government "a tract of 100 acres
Of land ON the Peninsula opposite New
Smyrna. IL has beach frontage of three
quarters of a mile, and Mr. Austin is now
having lumber sawed for a summer cottage
on IL.